The Fresh Food Company — Local services in Winnipeg

Plates are never clean! I have seen piles of dirty plates and today I grabbed a plate from the “clean plates” but I was unfortunate enough to grab a plate with filthy rotting food stuck to the top, my hands were covered it rotting onion from the plate, I grabbed several more plates and they were all sticky and had crumbs and sauce all over the bottoms and some even the tops! I gave up on the plates and simply grabbed a bowl which was mostly clean. Staff do not listen to any issues or take them seriously. My girlfriend asked specifically for one of the options at the grill, and they completely ignored her and gave her the wrong item, this is unfortunately a repeating occurrence with the staff. I have also asked for a veggie burger in the past, because the “beef” burgers taste horrible here and also contain strange additives.They once again ignore me and gave me the slimy beef patty. The Fresh Food Company is an ironic name for a company that prioritized profit over any quality. They use boxed eggs, overly salty food, and cut their protein with cheaper products such as old rice or beans I have seen them advertise their food as healthy and as a student who is studying food science and human nutrition, I know that it isn’t healthy to eat more than your daily value of sodium in one meal and to eat as much saturated fat as they put in their food. The salad bar more often than not has old disgusting lettuce and I have grabbed food with ANTS earlier in the semester and finding flies and dead bugs is also a common occurrence in the salad! The lack of care for students who are paying 5000 or more dollars each, per year to eat here… Not by choice but via a mandatory meal plan, the Fresh Food Co is pathetic and NO ONE SHOULD EVER EAT HERE UNLESS YOU ARE UNLUCKY ENOUGH TO BE FORCED INTO A MANDATORY MEAL PLAN if you are a first year student in residence. This shouldn’t even be legal. The staff here are horribly rude. There is only 2 staff members who treat anyone like actual people, one of them is the lunch greeter and the other is the manager with a long beard. When I come in here for lunch I am usually greeted with someone who will not speak a single word to me and will drop my meal card when she has finished swiping it rather than handing it to me. The lack of communication and respect for customers who are literally forced to be here is astonishing. If I could give it less than a 1 star review I would. PLEASE DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR AND DO NOT SUBJECT YOURSELF TO THE HORROR THAT IS “FRESH FOOD COMPANY” two more issues I have come by are the only fruit that is put out for us to eat is rotting bananas and apples or oranges. And the tables are almost always dirty perpetually. I have almost never been lucky enough to sit at a...

For the amount that you are paying, the food is terribly bad. They cheap out on the food options several times a week by serving omletes, grilled cheese sandwhiches, hot dogs, and corn dogs for dinner. When students are paying an average of $15 a meal, these trash options should be discontinued from the menu permanently. You are probably going to be eating terrible the days they are serving these cheap options since there's only 3-4 food stations in the cafeteria. As a matter of fact, I would say I have eaten the worst in my entire life in these last 3 months.

On top of that, the dessert is a joke two-thirds of the time. It's usually a tiny, 3-4 bite, slice of cheap pre-bought cake or fudge.

Please, for the love of god, do not go on their ridiculous meal plans if you live in AVM or another building where a meal plan is not mandatory. Instead, either cook your own food via rice cooker/air fryer or order take out since it'll only cost a bit more than their meal plans. I went on the meal plan strictly for convenience, and I can say that it 100% was not worth it. Not to mention, the line-ups to get your food can take up to 30 mins on busy days, so you're not really saving yourself much time by...

The staffs over here is very rude. Today I was standing in a line to pick food so Infront of me there where two people standing asking for halal meat. So when it’s my turn was also asked for halal meat because I am a Muslim girl. She took my plate gave me I also ask to give some noodles she was starring at me with a rude look and smack a little portion of the noodle into my plate. It was really embarrassing for me. I didn’t tell her anything. But just because I am brown girl and also Muslim she did this attitude with me. This is ridiculous. Yesterday I was taking a last piece of pizza into my plate as that was last piece I couldn’t pick it up with the spoon so I used my hand to push in to pick up. The lady standing there yelling at me not to use my hand. I know that was my fault. But she shouldn’t have to yell she can tell me nicely. The staff have to change their behaviour. Because I am paying for the food I am not eating...